Yoshihide Ashikaga

Japanese: 足利義栄 - あしかが・よしひで

Year of death: Eiroku 11.9 (1568)
Year of birth: Tenbun 7 (1538)
The 14th Shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate. The eldest son of Sakai Kubo Ashikaga Yoshitsuna. Born in Hirashima Manor, Awa (Tokushima Prefecture). His father Yoshitsuna was supported by Miyoshi Motonaga and tried to become Shogun but failed, so he campaigned to have Yoshihide appointed instead. In March 1551, when the relationship between Shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Miyoshi Nagayoshi had deteriorated, Yoshitsuna attempted to go to Kyoto, but failed. He sought refuge in Suo for a time, relying on the Mori clan, but returned to Awa in 1563. When Yoshiteru was assassinated in May of the same year, he was supported by the Miyoshi Triumvirate, and in June of the following year he advanced to Awaji, and with the assistance of Shinohara Nagafusa and others, he entered Fumon-ji Temple in Tomida, Settsu at the end of the same year, where he was appointed as the Left Horse Captain with the rank of Junior Fifth Rank, and in February of the 11th year, he was appointed Shogun, which he had longed for, and was known as the "Samurai of Tomida." However, in the autumn of the same year, when Oda Nobunaga went to Kyoto and the Sanninshu government collapsed, he fell ill with a tumor and died.

(Akira Imaya)

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Japanese:

没年：永禄11.9(1568)
生年：天文7(1538)
室町幕府第14代将軍。堺公方足利義維の長子。阿波(徳島県)平島荘に生まれる。父義維は三好元長に擁され将軍になろうとして果たさず,代わりに義栄を任官させようと運動。天文20(1551)年3月,将軍足利義輝と三好長慶の仲が悪化したのを奇貨として上洛を図ったが失敗。毛利氏を頼って一時周防に流寓するも,永禄6(1563)年阿波に戻る。同8年5月義輝が暗殺されると三好三人衆に擁され,翌年6月には淡路に進出,篠原長房らの援助で同年末に摂津富田の普門寺に入り従五位下左馬頭に叙任,同11年2月には念願の将軍に任官し「富田の武家」と称された。しかし同年秋の織田信長の上洛で三人衆政権が瓦解するなか,腫物を患い病死した。<参考文献>奥野高広『足利義昭』

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